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His visit was arranged together with the British Friends of the Hebrew University. During this visit he:

• Was welcomed at the Hebrew University – Hadassah Ein Kerem campus, where the Dean, Prof David Lichtstein hosted sessions with (including the heads of the Military Medical Programme; Profs  Neumark and Berry from the Braun School of Public Health; Profs Block and Shaham from the medical education programme; Profs Sasson and Yisraeli from the research section; and Prof Kottek and Dr Collins from the library and museum). He also heard presentations from researchers and saw the Chagall Windows.
• Discussed Jewish perspectives on medical ethics issues with Rabbi Prof Avraham Steinberg
• Met with Prof Jonathan Halevy at Shaarei Zedek Hospital and heard about how Israeli medical services are organised, in particular about the “basket of services” which are provided nationally.
• Met with the President of the Hebrew University, Prof Ben Sasson on Mount Scopus.
• Was entertained for dinner by the heads of the Israeli Paediatric groups, Prof Eli Somekh (Wolfson Hospital) and Dr Zacchi Grossman.
• Was hosted by Prof Zajfman (President of the Weizmann Institute), and met with Prof Livneh (National Centre for Personalised Medicine), Dr Eran Elinav and Dr Micha Schwartz
• Visited Ben Gurion University and met with the Dean, Prof Amos Katz, as well as with Dr Manuel Katz and his colleagues at the Rahat Community Paediatrics Centre for Bedouin
• Travelled to Haifa and met with Prof Gad Rennert from the National Cancer Survey
• Was welcomed to the Technion by Prof Peretz Lavie (President) and then went to the Rappaport Medical School where he met the Dean, Prof Eliezer Shalev, and to Rambam Hospital where he met Dr Shavit Itai. ,
• Visited Western Galilee Hospital, Nahariyah (part of the Bar Ilan Medical School) and met with the Director Dr Massad Barhoum
• Returned to Tel Aviv and met with, Prof Grossman (Tel Aviv University Medical School) and Dr Amitai Ziv at the Medical Simulation Centre based at Sheba Hospital.
• Met with the head of the Israel Medical Association Scientific Committee, Prof Shapiro, and the head of their legal section, Adv Borow, and had wide ranging discussion about education, training and professional regulation with them
• Was hosted by the Deputy British Ambassador, Dr Rob Dixon, at the Residency, which was attended by many distinguished Israel paediatricians, the former Israel medical ombudsman, Prof Shimon Glick, and the President of the Israeli Medical Association, Dr Leonid Eidelman.

In addition he was also able to visit were Yad Vashem, Herodion and Acre

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Annual Dinner – 12^th March 2015

Prof Mark Clarfield was brought up and educated in Toronto, receiving his MD from the University of Toronto in 1975. He specialised first in Family Medicine, then Community Medicine and Public Health and finally in Geriatrics. Together with his wife, Dr. Ora Paltiel, also a physician (haematology and clinical epidemiology), he moved to Montreal, where he was with the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University from 1978 -1992.

During that period, Clarfield was Chief of Geriatrics at the Sir Mortimer B. Davis – Jewish General Hospital as well as head of the McGill University Division of Geriatric Medicine. He was the Assistant Dean of Students at the Faculty from 1989-92 and reached the rank of Professor. He maintains an adjunct status at McGill University.

In 1992 the Clarfield family he moved to Israel. From 1994-2001 Mark was Head of the Division of Geriatrics at the Ministry of Health in Jerusalem. He was appointed Head of Geriatrics at the Soroka Hospital (a 1,100 bed acute care institution) and the Sidonie Hecht Professor at Ben-Gurion University (BGU) in Beersheva where he now works. In 2009 he was appointed head of BGU’s Medical School for International Health. He is the medical consultant to Eshel, the Association for the Development of Services for the Elderly, in Jerusalem. Prof Clarfield’s research interests include Alzheimer’s Disease and the related dementias, the organization of health care services, medical history and ethics. He also publishes medical humour, book reviews and miscellaneous pieces in various newspapers. Described as a “journalistic nudnik” he has published many letters to the editor in publications around the world, and wrote a blog about his experiences as a physician in Beersheva during times of war.

Prof Clarfield enjoys performing folk music with his band, “The Unstrung Heroes”.

The annual London Presidential Lecture  – took place on Thursday 6^th November 2014 

The speaker was: Dr Laurence Buckman

[Immediate past Chairman, General Practitioners Committee, British Medical Association]

who spoke  to the Association about his experiences in an address entitled:

“Ordinary Jewish doctor, extraordinary job”

Dr Buckman has been a General Practitioner since 1983 and is a partner in a small practice in London.

He was the Chairman of the British Medical Association’s General Practitioners Committee from 2007 to 2013, having been a negotiator for the profession since 1997.

He was a member of the BMA’s Council and one of their main spokesmen.  He still broadcasts on medicine and medical politics.  He has held a large number of posts in connection with medical education and regulation of the NHS and advises government on health matters.

He has been a tutor in General Practice, with a special interest in remedial teaching, at UCL Medical School since 1985.  He has also been a tutor in General Practice at  Ben Gurion Medical School in Beer Sheva since 2001.

He was the Medical Convenor of the Centre for Jewish Medical Ethics at Jews’ College and attended Rav Jakobovits Doctors’ Shiur for 13 years

In his Presidential Lecture Dr Buckman talked about the training he had received on the way to becoming the Chairman of the UK¹s GPs.  He noted the similarities between consultation skills known to all doctors, and negotiation between the Profession and government.  He explained the political process and “how things happened” in the semi-secret world of politics.  He considered the various Health Secretaries he had met or dealt with over his time at the helm of General Practice.  He concluded by looking at the role of a Jew in that position and what could be done to minimise anti-Semitism in medicine.

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Israeli Medical Association, World Fellowship